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“It's ‘Twelve Angry Men’ – with teenagers,” Canberra Youth Theatre director Luke Rogers says of Dawn King’s “The Trials”, the hot-topic play to which he’s just snared the Australian performing rights.
Lydia Milosavljevic as Maria, surrounded by the Von Trapp children. Photo: Helen Musa. Musical theatre / “The Sound of Music”, co-directed by Anthony Swadling and Alison Newhouse. At The Q, Queanbeyan, until March 21. Reviewed by BILL STEPHENS FROM the moment Willum Hollier-Smith took the stage to welcome the audience and announce that he wouldn’t be playing Kurt at this performance (he was on crutches and did manage to sing beautifully as the Altar Boy later in the show) the audience sensed that this production was going to be special. And indeed it was . Based on a memoir by Maria Vo...